1937 Electar Guitar

[exaN]

Wait until he puts on the distortion OMG

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwMYay8ovSk&feature=related[/youtube]

 

[Mor Paul]

Pretty nice sounds, I think. I wonder how one might get a similar pickup..

 

[Finch]

wow...
as if the sustain and clarity weren't amazing enough, I about shat my drawers when he hit distortion....

 

[TroubledTreble]

Pretty nice sounds, I think. I wonder how one might get a similar pickup..

That pickup is known as a "Horseshoe Pickup". They are neat pickups for sure. I have considered making one for myself to put in the bridge position on a strat. They can be found on steel guitars, lap and stand, and some basses if I remember correctly.

Magnetically speaking they are inefficient but as you can hear, they are still very, very cool.

 

[DangerousR6]

Cool, I'd want it just cause it's old.... :headbang:

 

[D-rock]

wow! that tone is so dynamic and the sustain is absolutely crazy!

 

[JaySwear]

sounds great! i've gotta say, that is one badass guitar.

and i love how excited he gets when he says "electar!" at the end. the look on his face is priceless haha

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Yeah - now I want a Horseshoe Pickup ...  :toothy10:

 

[Patrick from Davis]

I thought the old Rickenbacker's had pick ups like that before the toaster style.  Maybe it was just on their old basses.  It would be awesome to find a source for that style of pickup that was properly made and sounded good.  Also, the tone circuits would be fun to know.  It would be fun to build an L5 with that style pickup and tone circuit, or maybe a severely, "Customized," style thinline.  Cool video.
Patrick

 

[dbw]

Well that rocked  arty07:

 

[jimh]

That thing sounds nuts.  In a good way!

 

[AprioriMark]

TT make one! Go!

-Mark

 

[dNA]

i've been in love with acoustic/elecrtic archtops for a long time. I would love to have a 30's style archtop with a nice pickup in it like that. I kinda fell in love with the look after seeing one of these years and years ago.

 

[dNA]

errr. holy huge picture. not sure what happened there

 

[Soylent]

http://www.horseshoemagnets.com/_sgg/f10000.htm this guy is on break. but he's made them before..

And apparently some company called Lollar has made them before.. www.lollarguitars.com/blog/tag/old-horseshoe-pickup-magnets/ so it might be worth an ask, altho not listed on their site.. you never know.

:icon_thumright:

 

[TroubledTreble]

Y'know I thought Lollar made them at one time. He now makes a Supro reproduction that is like the one on the "Coodercaster". Another very cool sounding pickup.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I'm not raving over that sound.  Way too muddy, IMO, and it wasn't the player.  The distortion sounded like those aftermarket acoustic pickups that you put across the soundhole on an acoustic.  The sustain was borderline feedback which most any amp/guitar combo can do, but maybe amplified a little bit because of the semi-hollow nature of that guitar. 

 

[Justinginn]

Like the chunk a lot and the bell-tones are cool too. I wonder what his amp was (it's 60% of the tone anyway).

 

[OzziePete]

I thought that historically, Rickenbacker were the 'first' to come out with an 'electric' guitar, which was their Frying Pan electric hawaiian.

But maybe they (Rickenbacker) on sold their pickups to the Electar company and Electar made up the guitar..... :dontknow:

 

[Superlizard]

He should slapped a hi-output DiMarzio on it for real tone. 

Oh, but I jest... :laughing11: